Dining club
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A dining club (UK) or eating club (US) is a social group, usually requiring membership (which may, or may not be available only to certain people), which meets for dinners and discussion on a regular basis. They may also often have guest speakers.
United Kingdom
A dining club differs from a gentlemen's club in that it does not have permanent premises, often changing the location of its meetings and dinners.
Clubs may limit their membership to those who meet highly specific membership requirements. For example, the Coningsby Club requires members to have been a part of either OUCA or CUCA, the Conservative Associations at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge respectively.[citation needed] Others may require applicants to pass an interview, or simply pay a membership fee.
Early dining clubs include the
United States
In the
Dining clubs often have reciprocity with other dining clubs across the nation or even worldwide. Some are able to arrange reciprocity with other private social clubs with more facilities besides dining such as overnight guest rooms and a gym. Examples of such social clubs include the
List of dining clubs
This list is incomplete. Date of founding in brackets.
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18th-century, or earlier, foundations
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19th-century foundations
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20th- and 21st-century foundations
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Fictional
- The Thursday Club, a monthly dining club, features in the novel The Three Hostages by John Buchan.
- The Twelve True Fishermen is the name of a fictional club in the eponymous short story by G. K. Chesterton in which his detective Father Brown solves the riddle of the disappearance of the club's silver.
- The annual dinner of The Ten for Aristology is the scene of a murder in the 1960 Nero Wolfe story Poison à la Carte,
See also
- Eating clubs at Princeton University
- Harvard
- Gentlemen's club
- Stanford Eating Clubs
- Supper club
- Syracuse Eating Club
References
- ^ "Admitting the problem - The Daily Princetonian". Archived from the original on 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ^ More Than a Meal Plan - New York Times
- ^ "Canadian Clubs and Organisations in the UK". Government of Canada. 2015-01-06.
- ^ "Home". tcddiningclublondon.co.uk.
- ^ http://www.whitefriarsclub.org, and ‘Thursday… The annual dinner of the Whitefriar's Club was held at Radley's, Mr. Tom Hood in the chair.' London City Press, Saturday 20 February 1869, p. 3.